The Hittite Gilgamesh
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The Hittite Gilgamesh
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Author : Gary M. Beckman
language : en
Publisher: Lockwood Press
Release Date : 2019-06-15
The Hittite Gilgamesh written by Gary M. Beckman and has been published by Lockwood Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-15 with History categories.
From the late third millennium BCE on, the adventures of the hero Gilgamesh were well known throughout Babylonia and Assyria, and the discovery of Akkadian-language fragments of versions of his tale at Boğazkoy, Ugarit, Emar, and Megiddo demonstrates that tales of the hero's exploits had reached the periphery of the cuneiform world already in the Late Bronze Age. A century of excavation at the Hittite capital of Hattusa (mod. Boğazkoy) has yielded more textual sources for Gilgamesh than are known from all other Late Bronze Age sites combined. The Gilgamesh tradition was imported to Hattusa for use in scribal instruction, and has been of particular importance to modern scholars in reconstructing the epic and analyzing its development, since it documents a period in the history of the narrative for which very few textual witnesses have yet been recovered from Mesopotamia itself. And it is this very Middle Babylonian period to which scholarly consensus assigns the composition of the final, "canonical" version of the epic. The Hittite Gilgamesh offers a full edition of the manuscripts from Hattusa in the Hittite, Akkadian, and Hurrian languages recounting Gilgamesh's adventures.
The Epic Of Gilgamesh
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Author : John Harris
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2001-05-29
The Epic Of Gilgamesh written by John Harris and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-29 with Fiction categories.
The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest written chronicle in the world, composed two to three thousand years before Christ. It tells events in the life of a king in an ancient Sumerian city of Mesopotamia.In the tradition of the Greek Iliad or the medieval Beowulf, the heroic central figure is admired for his prowess and power; he is a warrior, whose greatest adventures are here recounted, sometimes fantastic and ultimately magical, as he ventures beyond the bounds of the world. The Epic of Gilgamesh is an artifact of the first civilization, that which is the father and mother of our own civilization. It is like the great-great-great-grandparent whose name you do not know but without whom you would not exist. There are many matters that are not believable to us—monsters, deities, and places that we do not think exist, nor ever existed. Yet we can perceive in Gilgamesh a person like ourselves. This is the story of a man, not a god. We understand him, even if we do not understand or believe all that he does. Gilgamesh is the first literature of mankind to express the human condition.
The Evolution Of The Gilgamesh Epic
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Author : Jeffrey H. Tigay
language : en
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Release Date : 2002
The Evolution Of The Gilgamesh Epic written by Jeffrey H. Tigay and has been published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Criticism categories.
Special Features- Aims to show how The Gilgamesh Epic developed from its earliest to its latest form- Systematic, step-by-step tracking of the stylistic, thematic, structural, and theological changes in The Gilgamesh Epic- Relation of changes to factors (geographical, political, religious, literary) that may have prompted them- Attempts to identify the sources (biographical, historical, literary, folkloric) of the epic's themes, and to suggest what may have been intended by use of these themes- Extensive bibliography- Indices
Gilgamesh
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Author : John R. Maier
language : en
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Release Date : 1997
Gilgamesh written by John R. Maier and has been published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
The evolution of the Gilgamesh epic" (1982) / Jeffrey H. Tigay -- From "Gilgamesh in literature and art: the second and first millennia" (1987) / Wilfred G. Lambert -- From "Gilgamesh: sex, love and the ascent of knowledge" (1987) / Benjamin Foster -- "Images of women in the Gilgamesh epic" (1990) / Rivkah Harris -- "The marginalization of the goddesses" (1992) / Tikva Frymer-Kensky -- "Mourning the death of a friend: some assyriological notes" (1993) / Tzvi Abusch -- "Liminality, altered states, and the Gilgamesh epic" (1996) / Sara Mandell -- "Origins: new light on eschatology in Gilgamesh's mortuary journey" (1996) / Raymond J. Clark -- From "a Babylonian in Batavia: Mesopotamian literature and lore in The sunlight dialogues" (1982) / Greg Morris -- "Charles Olson and the poetic uses of Mesopotamian scholarship" / John Maier -- From "'Or also a godly singer, ' Akkadian and early Greek literature" (1984) / Walter Burkert -- From "Gilgamesh and Genesis" (1987) / David Damrosch -- "Praise for death" (1990) / Donald Hall -- From "Gilgamesh in the Arabian nights" (1991) / Stephanie Dalley -- "Ovid's Blanda voluptas and the humanization of Enkidu" (1991) / William L. Moran -- From "the Yahwist's primeval myth" (1992) / Bernard F. Batto -- "Gilgamesh and Philip Roth's Gil Gamesh" (1996) / Marianthe Colakis -- From "The epic of Gilgamesh" (1982) / J. Tracy Luke and Paul W. Pruyser -- From "Gilgamesh and the Sundance Kid: the myth of male friendship" (1987) / Dorothy Hammond and Alta Jablow -- "Gilgamesh and other epics" (1990) / Albert B. Lord -- From "Reaching for abroad: departures" (1991) / Eric J. Leed -- From "Introduction" to he who saw everything (1991) / Robert Temple -- "The oral aesthetic and the bicameral mind" (1991) / Carl Lindahl -- From "Point of view in anthropological discourse: the ethnographer as Gilgamesh" (1991) / Miles Richardson -- From "The wild man: the epic of Gilgamesh" (1992) / Thomas Van Nortwick.
The Epic Of Gilgamesh
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Author : Daniel Deleanu
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2022-05-26
The Epic Of Gilgamesh written by Daniel Deleanu and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-26 with categories.
A new translation of this immortal classic by a scholar with a PhD in philology (the study of ancient languages and literatures), who is also an internationally acclaimed poet.
The Epic Of Gilgamesh
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Author : Maureen Gallery Kovacs
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1989
The Epic Of Gilgamesh written by Maureen Gallery Kovacs and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Literary Criticism categories.
Since the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic of Gilgamesh has been considered a masterpiece of ancient literature. It recounts the deeds of a hero-king of ancient Mesopotamia, following him through adventures and encounters with men and gods alike. Yet the central concerns of the Epic lie deeper than the lively and exotic story line: they revolve around a man’s eternal struggle with the limitations of human nature, and encompass the basic human feelings of lonliness, friendship, love, loss, revenge, and the fear of oblivion of death. These themes are developed in a distinctly Mesopotamian idiom, to be sure, but with a sensitivity and intensity that touch the modern reader across the chasm of three thousand years. This translation presents the Epic to the general reader in a clear narrative.
The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic
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Author : A. R. George
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic written by A. R. George and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian categories.
"The Babylonian Gilgamesh epic is the oldest long poem in the world, with a history going back four thousand years. It tells the fascinating and moving story of Gilgamesh's heroic deeds and lonely quest for immortality. This book collects for the first time all the known sources in the original cuneiform, including many fragments never published before. The author's personal study of every available fragment has produced a definitive edition and translation, complete with comprehensive introductory chapters that place the poem and its hero in context."--Publisher's description.
Gilgamesh
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Release Date : 2019
Gilgamesh written by and has been published by Hackett Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian categories.
Translated from the Akkadian, Sumerian, and Hittite.
The Epic Of Gilgamesh
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Author : Nancy K. Sandars
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
The Epic Of Gilgamesh written by Nancy K. Sandars and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Poetry categories.
Presents an English version of the epic poem which dates from the third millenium B.C., telling of the adventures of Gilgamesh, the great king of Uruk, and his search for immortality.
Gilgamesh
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Author : John Gardner
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1985-08-12
Gilgamesh written by John Gardner and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-08-12 with Fiction categories.
The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and moving as it is crucial to our ability to fathom the time and the place in which it was written. Gardner's version restores the poetry of the text and the lyricism that is lost in the earlier, almost scientific renderings. The principal theme of the poem is a familiar one: man's persistent and hopeless quest for immortality. It tells of the heroic exploits of an ancient ruler of the walled city of Uruk named Gilgamesh. Included in its story is an account of the Flood that predates the Biblical version by centuries. Gilgamesh and his companion, a wild man of the woods named Enkidu, fight monsters and demonic powers in search of honor and lasting fame. When Enkidu is put to death by the vengeful goddess Ishtar, Gilgamesh travels to the underworld to find an answer to his grief and confront the question of mortality.